How to Set Date Format by Locale in Magento 1

Each locale has different date formats. The default settings are configured in xml files located in lib\Zend\Locale\Data. The locale is configured in backend

System > Configuration > General > Locale Options > Locale

For example, if we set the Locale to English (United Kingdom), which value is en_GB. To look up the default date formats, look at the file lib\Zend\Locale\Data\en_GB.xml:

<dateFormats>
    <dateFormatLength type="full">
        <dateFormat>
            <pattern>EEEE, d MMMM U</pattern>
        </dateFormat>
    </dateFormatLength>
    <dateFormatLength type="long">
        <dateFormat>
            <pattern>d MMMM U</pattern>
        </dateFormat>
    </dateFormatLength>
    <dateFormatLength type="medium">
        <dateFormat>
            <pattern>d MMM U</pattern>
        </dateFormat>
    </dateFormatLength>
    <dateFormatLength type="short">
        <dateFormat>
            <pattern>dd/MM/yy</pattern>
        </dateFormat>
    </dateFormatLength>
</dateFormats>

The value of the attribute type corresponds to the const in Mage_Core_Model_Locale:

    /**
     * Date and time format codes
     */
    const FORMAT_TYPE_FULL  = 'full';
    const FORMAT_TYPE_LONG  = 'long';
    const FORMAT_TYPE_MEDIUM= 'medium';
    const FORMAT_TYPE_SHORT = 'short';

If after having set the locale in admin, and we do not see changes, refresh the cache:

System > Cache Management > click the button Flush Magento Cache

Get Locale Date Time

Mage::getSingleton('core/date')->date('d-m-Y H:i:s');

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Last edit

2021-02-01

kiatng

Posted by kiatng to OpenMage (2020-01-23 05:23)